Subject Guide is Universiti Putra Malaysia initiative in providing better services for lecturers, researchers and even students in preparing their research works. It also provides tips and guides as well as constant source of information. Study and Research Help promises an interesting overview of information searching.

SiberPROP is developed by Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun to ease the process of course registration. The system is programmed using PHP web programming language, third-party PHP plug-in and JavaScript libraries. SiberPROP is used for registration and evaluation of information literacy classes in academic libraries. It includes several additional modules that will assist users, facil itators and system administrators in managing course registration.

Pustaka Vendor Rating System (Pustaka VRS) is developed by Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun to evaluate the performance of vendor services using electronic forms. This is a transition from manual based process that is very time consuming.

CULTIVATING KNOWLEDGE: Kadim (third left) accompanied by Fadzil (second left) checking out the book exhibition at the seminar.

KOTA SAMARAHAN: Libraries see a paradigm shift from efforts to cultivate the reading habit to becoming a hub of educated minds in reaching developed nation status.

Towards that effort, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) Pusat Khidmat Maklumat Akademik organised a ‘Seminar Kepustakawanan’ as a platform to share new perspectives in the world of literature and librarianship.

KUCHING: Librarians and libraries still have a role to play despite the digital revolution.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) held its annual librarianship seminar themed “The Transformation of Libraries towards the Culturisation of Knowledge” yesterday, with hundreds of librarians, academics, information experts and students attending the two-day talk.

Speaking at the opening of the seminar, Unimas head librarian Margaret Simeng said that libraries throughout the country had to keep up with the large influx of digital information and changes affecting the industry in order to flourish.